3. The members of this committee must be representative of and responsive to their respective constituencies through the mechanism of a student-faculty senate.

We see these first-steps as radical and necessary, and believe that they must be taken with a view either to creating a more responsive Corporation, or to delegating the authority of the Corporation to the above joint student-faculty bodies.

We offer the following as a recommendation to this committee once it is established:

1. The members of the Corporation be directly elected, two by the students of the various divisions of the University, two by the faculties, and one by the alumni.

2. Policy-making bodies elected by the faculty and students be created in the colleges and all graduate schools of the University.

The original purpose behind the creation of the Harvard corporation, in 1650, was to establish a governing board more involved with an responsive to the affairs of Harvard than the distant Board of Overseers. The latter was a cumbersome body, difficult to assemble, composed of the political and religious leaders of the Bay Colony. The five initial members of the Corporation as named in the Charter all were recent graduates who were, or became, teachers in the College. It is time to return to the first principles of the University's constitution and create a structure which will again reflect the needs of the community